Jacques Richard (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Jacques Richard Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 7, 1952
place of birth Québec City , Québec , Canada
date of death October 8, 2002
Place of death Québec City , Québec , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 77 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1972 , 1st lap, 2nd position
Atlanta Flames
Career stations
1967-1972 Québec Remparts
1972-1975 Atlanta Flames
1975-1979 Buffalo Sabers
1979-1980 Rochester Americans
1980-1983 Québec Nordiques

Jacques Richard (* 7. October 1952 in Quebec City , Quebec , † 8. October 2002 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player , who during his playing career, among other things for the Atlanta Flames , Buffalo Sabers and Quebec Nordiques in the National Hockey League has played .

Career

Jacques Richard went on the ice for the Québec Remparts from 1967 to 1972 and played there with Guy Lafleur and André Savard . In his last three years with the Remparts in the Québec Major Junior Hockey League , the attacker scored well over a hundred points per season. In 1971 he won the Memorial Cup with the team , in the following year Richard was awarded the trophy Jean Béliveau as the best scorer in the league. In the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft , the Canadian was selected in the first round in second position by the Atlanta Flames . Due to his outstanding performance in the QMJHL, he was already being traded as the next Maurice "Rocket" Richard during this time and was credited with a similarly successful career. Jacques Richard met these expectations throughout his NHL career, however, only in the 1980/81 season , when he completed an excellent regular season and achieved a record of 52 goals and 103 points. This was his only season ever in which Richard had scored more than 50 points scorer. In Atlanta, the striker was one of the top scorers on a team with which he reached the playoffs once in three years and did not get past the first round. With the Flames, he started with an excessive lifestyle. He was known for his high levels of alcohol consumption , excessive gambling and later cocaine . In October 1975 the Flames gave it to the Buffalo Sabers in a transfer business .

In his first season, the striker was used regularly, but against strong competitors such as Gilbert Perreault , René Robert and Rick Martin , the French Connection , he was never able to prevail and also acted twice in the Hershey Bears in American Hockey League . The general manager of Sabers Punch Imlach described Richard as a "nice boy and good ice hockey player", "but who wasted his talent". His drinking problems resulted in a brawl in a bar and unable to play the next game due to a sprained wrist. The Sabers decided not to renew his contract in the summer of 1979 and Richard began the following season with the Rochester Americans . There he performed well and was one of the team's best scorers with 36 points from 37 games, so that the attacker was committed in February 1980 by the Québec Nordiques . In the 1979/80 season he came to 14 missions for the Nordiques and scored 15 points before a knee injury left him from the game. In the following season Richard played in a row with the Šťastný brothers Anton and Peter . In his hometown Richard acted in the position of the right winger. During the 1980/81 season he was the first player in franchise history to score more than 50 goals this season and a total of 103 points scorer in the regular season, after the attacker had never scored more than 43 points in his seven NHL seasons before. In the later years he was still a good scorer, but he was never able to build on these outstanding achievements, which was due to his excessive lifestyle. He ended his active career in 1983 after Richard last played for Fredericton Express in the American Hockey League. In 1999 he was elected to the all-time QMJHL All-Star team by the Canadian Hockey League for his outstanding achievements during his junior years in the position of left winger in the Québec Major Junior Hockey League .

After his playing career, Richard came into conflict with the law when he was caught on February 13, 1989 at the Montréal airport by customs officers with over five pounds of cocaine that he had brought from Colombia. The market value of cocaine was estimated at about $ 1.5 million. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

One day after his 50th birthday, Richard was killed in a road traffic accident.

Achievements and Awards

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 10 556 160 187 347 307
Playoffs 6th 35 5 5 10 34

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personal data
SURNAME Richard, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec City , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2002
Place of death Quebec City , Quebec